Blue winged Warbler finally shows up in the yard!

Blue winged Warbler, Home, Belchertown, MA, Aug 8, 2020

Blue winged Warbler, Home, Belchertown, MA, Aug 8, 2020

Around midday today I finally managed to find a Blue winged Warbler in the yard after looking for one for the roughly 15 years we have lived here.  I was doing some work around the yard and noticed a small mixed flock moving through so I grabbed some binoculars and the third bird I looked at was a Blue winged Warbler.  I quickly made it back into the house and grabbed my camera and thankfully the bird was somewhat cooperative and hung around long enough for me to at least get some record shots in bad light.  This is the last common warbler species around the area that I had not yet tracked down in the yard despite a lot of looking.  In fact I have had several rarer warblers in the yard before I finally found a Blue winged Warbler.  Among the rarer warblers that the yard has produced include two Orange crowned Warblers, a Connecticut Warbler, two Mourning Warblers and rarest of all, a Kentucky Warbler.  I have now had a very impressive (in my book anyway) 29 species of warblers on our two acres of land...amazing what you can find if you look and have a decent selection of habitat diversity.

Canada Warbler, Pelham, MA, Aug 8, 2020

Northern Waterthrush, Belchertown, MA, Aug 8, 2020

Earlier today I hit a few spots around the local area and turned up a total of 16 species for the morning including a slightly late Louisiana Waterthrush and a few singing Canada Warblers.  Fall migration for warblers is certainly underway.